Report shows car industry enjoying buoyant exports with Seicento as leader

Car factories are expected to export 214,000 cars by the end of this year. Of this number 129,000 have already been exported. Out of 179,000 new cars producer this year, only 50,000 were sold on the domestic market. According to the car market monitoring agency Samar 206,600 new cars were sold in Poland, while 150,600 were imported. The sales of domestically produced cars were higher by almost 6,000 than this year's production, with sales of last years' models making up the shortfall. Fiat is the largest exporter, which this year has already exported 69,000 cars (almost exclusively Seicento cars). General Motors, thanks to the sales of 53,400 of its Agila model, ranks second. Daewoo-FSO ranks third with 5,300 cars sold on foreign markets. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B5) P.W.